Gleb Pavlovsky

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Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (born in Odessa on March 5, 1951) is a Russian political scientist.

1 Biography
2 Controversy
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Biography

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Gleb Pavlovsky was born to a family of an engineer/constructor.

In 1968-1973 he studied at historical department of Odessa National University. In his student years he was a member of a club/commune "Subject of Historical Activity", which propagated "spirit of 1968": "I considered myself something alike zen-marxist." Up to 1974 he taught history in a school. Was a worker since 1975.

He encountered KGB the first time in 1974 — in a case of spead of "The Gulag Archipelago": "Investigators were professional, harsh trainers."

Moved to live in Moscow, where he became closely acquainted with Mikhail Gefter: "We grew together biographically, since that I felt myself lyrical hero of his ideas."

He is the president of the Foundation for Effective Politics [1]. In 1997 he helped found the Russian Journal [2].

[edit] Controversy

Gleb Pavlovsky is considered to have been heavily involved with the highly controversial Ukrainian presidential election, 2004, supporting the ultimately defeated (after allegations of fraud and an overturning of the result by the Supreme Court of Ukraine) Viktor Yanukovych.

In early 2005, Gleb Pavlovsky became the center of controversy when an apparently tapped telephone conversation that mentioned his name aired on Kiev's Channel 5 TV. This tape linked him to the dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. However Gleb Pavlovsky categorically denied any connection of his to the poisoning. [3]

Since 2005 he has hosted weekly news commentary programme Real Politics at 10 p.m. on Saturdays on NTV.

On February 8, 2007, Moscow State University marked the 125th anniversary of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday with high-level conference "Lessons of the New Deal for Modern Russia and the World" attended, among others, by Vladislav Surkov and Gleb Pavlovsky. There Surkov drew an explicit parallel between the U.S. president and Russian president Vladimir Putin, praising the legacy of Roosevelt's New Deal, and between the USA of the 1930s and present-day Russia, while Gleb Pavlovsky called on Putin to follow Roosevelt in staying for the third presidential term.^[1]